GEOGRAPHY 8 - Announcements


Term 3

Week 3 Homework - complete Word Quiz on p.248 - will be checked at Thursday lesson.

Lesson 1 - Complete Evaluation on p. 24
Lesson 2 - Review Evaluation and introduction to Ch 12.
Lesson 3 - Check Homework and work on Assessment task

Week 1 Term 3

Welcome back.

I need to catch up with some students about zoo sheets and zoo test

Consider Ch. 11.5

Consider Ch 11.6

Calculate you ecological footprint using http://www.bestfootforward.com/footprintlife.htm or http://www.earthday.net/footprint/info.asp

Make a note of your eco footprint.

Back to desks to tell the class.

Zoo worksheet

Brendan
Jackson
Reece
Ravi
Harrison
Nicholas

Zoo test

Jackson
Reece
Nicholas
























Week 8: Periods 1 & 2 Tuesday


1. Read Chapter 11.3 - take notes in your workbook (20 minutes)

2.Go to the computers and log onto: http://geog8.wikispaces.com/

3. Complete Population Pyramid The trick is to use MS Paint to 'flip' one one of the charts and a table in MS Word to add the titles and other text. Insert your charts into a Table cell in your Word document. When you have finished email you Word document with the Population Pyramid to Terry.Fogarty@tphs.nsw.edu.au

Full explanation of this task.

4. When you finish this look at Activity 4 on page 239. Discuss the issue in groups of 3. After the group disucssion, outline your individual comments on the discussion board of the Geog8 web site. (Make sure you include your full name).

The discussion board is at the top of the page to the right of the EDIT button.














Homework Schedule

Due Thursday 9th June
Summarise Chapter 11.1
Access to Natural Resources p. 234

Next Week's Homework

Due: Thursday 16th June
Summarise Chapter 11.2

Todays Task

1.Create a poster of thh diagram on p.234 'Natural Resources - renewable and non-renewableusing (use MS PowerPoint)

(Make the psoster look as much like the one in the book as you can)

2. Save you PowerPoint poster as a .jpg file (JPEG)

3. Include the .jpg file as an attachment you send to Mr Fogarty at Terry.Fogarty@tphs.nsw.edu.au

4. Make sure you put the words "Renewable Resources Poster" in the SUBJECT field of your email.

5. In the body of your email answer following questions:

  • Did you enjoy making the poster?
  • Why?
  • What problems did you encounter?
  • How did you attempt to overcome any problems?
  • Apart from playing games and surfing the net, what do you like doing on the computer?

Make sure you inlude your FULL name and FORM CLASS at the bottom of your email.

Working on computer tasks at home